Coronation Street confirms death of a legend which sends shockwaves

There’s immoderate daze quality for Leanne Battersby (Jane Danson) successful a soon-to-be-aired Coronation Street episode, erstwhile a constabulary serviceman arrives to archer her that her father, Les Battersby (Bruce Jones), has died astatine work. 

Les was past seen successful the soap successful 2007, heading disconnected for a vocation arsenic a roadie for tribute set ZZ Top O’The Morning. In existent beingness the histrion got into fuss with the soap’s bosses for off-set behaviour, and allegedly insulting fans and yet revealing plots. Bruce, 71, presently works arsenic a nonrecreational wrestler.  

‘I really thought, good fine, I played him for 10 years. It gives maine closure,’ Bruce said connected the determination to termination disconnected his character. ‘Maybe it volition halt radical asking maine each the clip erstwhile I’m going back, if I’m going back.’ 

For his on-screen girl Leanne, the quality comes astatine a hard clip of her beingness arsenic her semipermanent narration with Nick Tilsley (Ben Price) has precocious breached up aft she discovered he’d been having an matter with her half-sister Toyah. 

When the constabulary serviceman arrives to present the news, Nick is conscionable trying to brace himself to archer Leanne that his narration with Toyah is, successful fact, inactive ongoing. He’s not looking guardant to what is decidedly not going to beryllium an casual speech – but past the constabulary serviceman arrives with the atrocious quality astir Les. 

It comes arsenic a unspeakable daze for Leanne, who’s rocked by the news. Her archetypal thought is to find Toyah and archer her what’s happened. Although Les wasn’t Toyah’s biologic dad, helium brought her up for galore years erstwhile helium was with her mum, Janice (Vicky Entwistle). 

As Leanne heads off, Nick calls Toyah to fto her cognize that helium hasn’t told Leanne astir them inactive being together. Of people helium besides has to archer her astir Les, which means erstwhile Leanne arrives she soon realises that Toyah already knew astir her dad’s death. 

Nick makes things worse by trying to screen for the information that helium called Toyah, making Leanne adjacent much suspicious. And erstwhile she looks astatine Nick’s laptop and finds he’s been booking a vacation successful Tenerife for him and Toyah, she realises the afloat truth. 

At the precise infinitesimal erstwhile they should beryllium agreed successful their grief, the Battersby sisters person erstwhile again been ripped apart. 

How volition Leanne react? 

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